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Searchme: A New Visual Search Engine

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Wednesday, March 12th 2008   
Topics: Google, Nice tools, Online Marketing, SEM, Search    
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I just came across this very attractive and potentially influential search engine Searchme.com
I think it is worth the mention and watching the 2 promotional videos below which will give you a very good feel at how exactly this search engine works and how it is different from the others.
Introduction to Searchme
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/BZSpjXEvy1I" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" [...]

Google Adwords will now use page load time as a quality score

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Saturday, March 8th 2008   
Topics: Adwords, Getting Traffic, Google, Online Marketing, PPC, Product Marketing, SEM    
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In case you missed it, yesturday Google Adwords team announced that they will now use the loading time of your Adwords landing page as one of the measures of the ‘quality score’ they give you in order to determine how much to charge you per click compared to your competitor.
If you are managing Google ads, [...]

Interview with Adam Lasnik of Google revealing some nice SEO tips

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, March 7th 2008   
Topics: Flash, Google, PageRank, SEO, Webdesign    
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 A couple of weeks ago at SES London, a very nice interview came out with Google Search Evangelist Adam Lasnik on several important SEO and webmaster relevant topics. Adam answers some questions about Flash, JavaScript, duplicate content (especially with press releases) and he also suggested uses of internal site nofollow tags and website architecture to [...]

The power of high quality incoming links for search engine rankings

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, March 7th 2008   
Topics: Domaining, Google, Link Baiting, Link Building, SEO, Social Networking    
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A case study:
You hear it and see it all the time in the domaining industry. A hyphen in a domain will decrease the value of that domain name and search engines often devalue hyphenated domains as these are often ‘copycat domains’ or 2nd grade content domains. Although I agree this is true in some cases, [...]

Matt Cutts Interview at SMX - A personal touch

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, March 7th 2008   
Topics: Google, SEO    
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The Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West conference took place this week. I was reading up on some of the highlights and came across this very nice interview with Matt Cutts (google’s public figure and main google engineer) which is definitely worth the watch. Although the first half of the interview was quite personal (which [...]

My 2008 SEO and Online Marketing predictions

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, March 7th 2008   
Topics: Future Predictions, Link Baiting, Link Building, Online Marketing, SEM, SEO, Social Networking    
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This is something I have been giving considerable thought to the past few months. I did not get around to sharing some of my 2008 SEO and online marketing predictions yet but since it is march already and there is about to be a big shift in the seo and online marketing industry this year [...]

Very nice stats plugin for your Wordpress blog

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Saturday, March 1st 2008   
Topics: Blogging, Web Statistics, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins    
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I just cam across this nice stats plugin for wordpress blogs which I would like to share with you as it seems like a very nice plugin to have installed on your wordpress blog for quick and easy viewing of you website statistics.
You can then view your blog stats directly from your wordpress admin interface [...]

Yahoo! is changing to an open approach to search results

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, February 29th 2008   
Topics: Online Marketing, Product Marketing, SEM, SEO, Yahoo    
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Yahoo! just announced the new approach they are about to implement for returning search query information. This is quite interesting and actually makes a lot of sense to me. I applaud them for the foresight they are displaying and really hope with this new implementation that they can re-gain some of the market share lost [...]

Sitemaps now easier to manage, submit and scale!

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Thursday, February 28th 2008   
Topics: Google, Microsoft, SEO, Sitemaps, Webdesign, Yahoo    
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Today, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft (MSN/Live)  and Ask are all announcing cross-host submission for easier management of sitemaps. This will make it a lot easier for webmasters to manage multiple sitemaps.
Here is how it works:
For those of you not familiar with sitemaps, a sitemap is a file that contains the URLs for the pages on [...]

New Google Adsense Policy update

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Wednesday, February 27th 2008   
Topics: Adsense, Google    
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Today, Google Adsense updated their terms of service (TOS). The announcement was posted here and you will also see a message when you login to your adsense account with the updated TOS. It has been almost 2 years since the last update. The last significant update was made in November 2005.
So what are the most [...]

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